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From: Esther Gesick
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 8:38 AM
To: 'carlsonfive@gmail.com'
Subject: FW: TMSM-Spam: Stop Uranium Mining
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Mr. Carlson,
Please see the attached response.
Esther E. Gesick
Deputy Clerk to the Board
915 10th Street
Greeley, CO 80631
(970) 356-4000 X4226
(970)352-0242 (fax)
Original Message
From: William Garcia
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 7:09 AM
To: Esther Gesick
Subject: FW: TMSM-Spam: Stop Uranium Mining
Original Message
From: Mike and Marcia Carlson [mailto:carlsonfive@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 5:29 PM
To: William Garcia
Subject: TMSM-Spam: Stop Uranium Mining
I am very concerned about the potentially severe impacts the proposed uranium mine near
Nunn, Colorado will have on our land, water, and health. As my representative, I ask that
you do everything in your power to stop this project.
Michael Carlson
3320 Grenache St
Greeley CO 80634
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12-27-07
Dave Long,
Chairman, Weld County Commissioners
Weld County Board of Commissioners
RE: Powertech and the proposed uranium mining operation in Weld County
Gentlemen:
You would not listen to the Weld County citizens about the simple absence of stop signs until
someone died at the intersection of Weld County Roads 57 and 72.
BUT - you have now installed the stop signs which hopefully will prevent additional deaths at the
intersection of WCR 57 and 72 and you also installed a stop sign at WCR 72 and 59.
Are you going to listen to the Weld County citizens protesting the proposed uranium mining or are
you going to approve it and then when it is too late you will not be able to install a stop sign to
stop the extensive groundwater contamination throughout many counties of Colorado and who knows
where else?
It would be very interesting for the citizens of Weld County to know just what methods Powertech
used to obtain the mining rights for all that property. What sort of secret, clandestine, and
covert methods did they use?
Do what the Fort Collins City Council had the guts to do. Say NO to Powertech and then be brave and
stand up to Powertech's attacks and bullying because you will know you did the right thing. Don't
be mislead by promises of big money for Weld County.
Be like my daughter, Shari Wolfrum. Know you were right, stand behind it, fight against Powertech.
Your Weld County citizens and the citizens of northeastern Colorado will be proud of you for not
knuckling under to Powertech and letting the groundwater of northeastern Colorado be contaminated
for years to come.
Big buildings frequently have the names of board members on bronze plaques attached to the building.
Would each of you want your names on a large bronze plaque commemorating the contamination of all
the groundwater in northeastern Colorado? Think about it. The stop sign might have saved one life.
How many lives and how much property can the right decision on this issue save?
Sincerely, ?�f/,`61'acX—
George P. Hypes
3011 West Fifth Street
Greeley, CO, 80634-5522
Enclosure: Letter to the Greeley Tribune published 12-27-07 by Jeff Dunn of Pierce, Colorado, in
which he asks:
"I ask our Weld County commissioners: Do they want to be remembered for making the decision that
allowed the irreversible damage to the environment and water for millions of people along the Front
Range for years to come because Powertech bullied anyone who opposed them?" //77
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Powertech using `attach language
This time it's personal. Richard Blubaugh tion."Isn't it scientific enough that there con- mining projects like those mentioned above.
decided that the only course of action he could tinues to be contamination and irreversible So here are some more questions that need to
take in an effort to fight off opposition to Pow- damage,and that it is this scientific,accurate be considered.
ertech's proposed uranium mining operation is information that is causing the opposition and If Powertech is this rude,disrespectful and
to attack the Fort Collins City Council. concern? aggressive over a simple resolution, how are
He first says,"The action If anyone doubts the validity of this attack, they going to react if they are permitted to mine
taken by the city council was -- consider these quotes directed at the Fort and spill or contaminate our water supply and
not only premature and Collins council in his response to the council's are expected to clean it up?And if they are per-
unwarranted," and that it .: ; :„t resolution."Profound disappointment,prema- mitted to mine and are confronted with viola-
was also predicated on sev- µ•`• i tore,unwarranted,erroneous assumptions,not tions of the laws and regulations concerning
P eral erroneous assumptions j based on accurate information, flawed, erro- these operations? How do they expect us to
neous presumptions erroneous impression believe anything they say?
about uranium mining. , P. P P.
Is it an unwarranted erro- unwarranted conclusion,erroneous statement, Blubaugh wants us to believe only what Pow-
neous assumption that the w,u inaccurate assertion,unsubstantiated,does not ertech's tests,studies and information says,and
contamination of the Czech contribute constructively and serves as a dis- slag s any other results.It appears he expects to
Republic in-situ leaching J@N Dunn service to the community." to believe that 100 percent of other tests ant
uranium site has spread GUEST I bet this really comforts the thousands of studies are 100 percent wrong,100 percent o':
beyond the leaching zone COLUMNIST people who have already been affected by the the time.
horizontally and vertically bullying of mining companies lice Powertech Powertech, after viciously attacking anyom
and continues to spread, and the contamination of their water supplies who opposes it,then asks for a reconsideration
threatening groundwater? Or in the Ukraine, and environment. and expects s to be friends and trust it.
where groundwater contamination is spreading The fact that Blubaugh objects that the pro- I ask o e i 1,Celd Cot ^. - ,mmissioners: Dc
downstream from the site to other cities?What posed mining project is in Weld County and they want to - ' remez.' .. for making thi
about the contamination and spills at Chris- not Larimer is really irrelevant since the threat- decision that allowed the irn. .ersible damage tt
tensen Ranch,Wyo.,Crow Butte,Neb.,Rosita, ened Laramie-Fox Hills aquifer is not only in the environment and water for millions of peo
Texas,and Beverly,South Australia? Larimer and Weld,but also is in Morgan,Boul- pie along the Front Range for years to com
He then rambles on about the permitting der,Adams,Arapahoe,Douglas,Elbert and El because Powertech bullied anyone who op
process, which is not what opposition to the Paso counties.It also threatens others because posed them?
mining is about, and challenges the opposi- of destructive"horizontal and vertical leaching"
tion's "sound science and accurate informa- and contamination that continues from in-situ JefDunn and hisfamily live in Pierec
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